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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Notes from a quiet backwater II," Bessie says that people need to have a sense of what?
(a) Country.
(b) Alertness.
(c) Self.
(d) Pride.

2. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) Where we all come from.
(b) The personality of a people.
(c) The core of people.
(d) The bareroots of a people.

3. While Bessie ultimately abandoned Christianity, what part of it did she continue to embrace?
(a) Baptism and communion.
(b) Christ's teachings of love thy neighbor.
(c) Community, not individual, worship.
(d) Heaven.

4. As a writer, what is Bessie referred to as?
(a) The refugee writer.
(b) The Botswana writer.
(c) The angry, black writer.
(d) The South African writer.

5. In "Notes on novels," how is pre-colonial invasion South Africa described?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Backward.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Impoverished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?

2. What is the cooking pot in South Africa called?

3. According to Bessie in "Despite broken bondage . . .," what do men in Botswana mostly do?

4. What became paradise to Bessie in America?

5. In 1965, what did Bessie write that the people of South Africa need to find in order to live together?

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